Safe or Unsafe Friend? Friendship Skills Card Sort Activity | SEL Gr. 2-3

This no-prep SEL activity helps students identify safe and unsafe friendship behaviours through two engaging activities that build relationship skills, communication, and healthy peer relationships.

Students first explore friendship behaviours through a Discussion Game using colour-coded cards to encourage conversation and critical thinking. They then reinforce their learning through a Card Sort Activity, reading friendship scenarios and sorting them into Safe Friend and Unsafe Friend categories.

This activity helps students recognize qualities of healthy friendships, such as kindness, honesty, inclusion, and respect, while developing awareness of behaviours that may be hurtful, unsafe, or unhealthy in relationships.

✅ CASEL Focus: Relationship Skills

What’s Included:

📄 5 printable PDF pages (8.5 × 11 in.)

🗣️ Safe and Unsafe Friend Discussion Cards

✂️ Safe and Unsafe Friend Card Sort Activity

🫙 Safe Friend Sorting Jar

🫙 Unsafe Friend Sorting Jar

🖨️ Permission to photocopy for single classroom, counselling, therapeutic, or home use

How to Use:

✔ SEL lessons

✔ Morning meetings

✔ Friendship units

✔ Small-group discussions

✔ Counselling sessions

✔ Independent practice

✔ No-prep print-and-go classroom activities

Perfect For:

🏫 Grades 2–3

💙 School counsellors

🤝 Relationship Skills lessons

🧠 Healthy friendship discussions

🏡 Homeschool families

👥 Friendship and social skills activities

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📕Making the Team: Jack’s Missed Goal

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📕Living With Grandma and Grandpa: Jack and Alice’s Challenges

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